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Hao Hu

Hao Hu

Hao Hu

Curriculum Vitae pdf

Research Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Geophysics, 2015, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
B.S., Geophysics, 2009, Yunnan University

Office: 127 SR1
hhu5@central.uh.edu


Research Interests

  • Exploration of unconventional/conventional resources, e.g., geothermal/fossil resources, CO2 geological storage, using seismic methods.
  • Understanding the subsurface structures, from shallow to deep, using seismic signals, e.g., high-resolution seismic imaging and inversion;
  • Fundamental studies of seismic wave propagation, imaging and inversion.

Expertises

Algorithm developments/applications

●     Geothermal/fossil/CO2-storage reservoir characterization

●     3D Seismic imaging: marine and land

●     Seismic signal processing and inversion

●     Proprietary surface wave separation/removal

●     Machine learning in seismic studies

Fundamental Research

●        3D seismic wave modeling and high-resoultion imaging

●        HPC using large-scale GPU/CPU

●        Nonlinear signal processing

●        Stochastic inversion of heterogeneity

●        Planetary seismology (Mars)

Patents

  • Patent (with Yingcai Zheng) “Nonlinear signal comparison and high-resolution measurement of seismic or acoustic wave dispersion”. One commercial license has been authorized by an industry company.
  • Patent (With Yingcai Zheng) “Surface wave prediction and removal from seismic data”.
  • Patent (With Yike Liu) “Seismic prestack migration imaging method”, CN102944894B.

Papers in Peer-reviewed Journals (* corresponding author).

2021

  1. Hu H., Alali M. A., Almomin A., and Y. Zheng, 2021, 3D Seismic Characterization of Fractures Using Elastic P-to-S Double-Beams, Geophysics, 86(6): 1-51. Link, PDF
  2. Ding Y., H. Hu*, A. Malallah, M. C. Fehler, L. Huang, and Y. Zheng, Mapping subsurface karsts and voids using directional elastic wave packets , Geophysics, 86(6): 1-67. Link, PDF
  3. Lin, R., H. Hu, Y. Ding, L. Huang, K. Gao, and Y. Zheng, Improving subsalt sediment imaging and high angle faults using secondary scattered seismic waves, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 178(5):1-15, 10.1007/s00024-021-02741-y. Link, PDF
  4. 32 . Wo Y., J. Zong, Hu, H.W. Zhou and R. Stewart, Velocity model building for a single-offset VSP data via deformable-layer tomography: A Texas salt dome example, Geophysics, 86(4): 1-44. Link, PDF
  5. Yi J., Y. Liu, H. Hu, Y. Zhang and Z. Yang, High-resolution multimode surface-wave dispersion spectrum imaging with a multichannel signal comparison method. Chinese Journal of Geophysics. 64(5): 1710-1720, doi: 10.6038/cjg2021O0184. Link, PDF

2020

  1. Hu H., and Y. Zheng, 2020, Stochastic inversion of Gaussian random media using transverse coherence functions for reflected waves, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(12), https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020385. Link, PDF
  2. Thongsang P., H. Hu* , H.W. Zhou and A. Lau, 2020, Imaging enhancement in angle-domain common-image-gathers using the connected-component labeling method, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 177: 4897–4912. Link, PDF
  3. Li, D., X. Tian, H. Hu, X. Tang, X. Fang and Y. Zheng, 2020, Gaussian beam imaging of fractures near the wellbore using sonic logging tools after removing dispersive borehole waves, Geophysics, 85(4): 1-47. Link, PDF
  4. Wo Y., H.W. Zhou, H. Hu, Y. Ding and J. Zong, 2020, A Layer-cell Tomography Method for Near-surface Velocity Model Building Using First Arrivals, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 1-15. Link, PDF
  5. Hu H., K. Xia, F. Hilterman, Y. Zhang, 2020, Amplitude-versus-angle analysis of local angle-domain common image gathers with prestack Gaussian beam migration of Seismic data , IEEE, Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58(8): 5969-5975. Link, PDF

2019

  1. Hu H. and Y. Zheng, 2019, Data-driven dispersive surface-wave prediction and mode separation using high-resolution dispersion estimation , Journal of Applied Geophysics, 171: 1-10. Link, PDF
  2. Li L., Y. Chen, Y. Zheng, H. Hu and J. Wu, 2019, Seismic Evidence for Plume-Slab Interaction by High-resolution Imaging of the 410-km Discontinuity Under Tonga , Geophysical Research Letters, 46(23): 13687-13694. Link, PDF
  3. Driel M., S. Ceylan, J. F. Clinton, D. Giardini, R. Weber, P. Lognonn ́e, B. Banerdt, M.Drilleau, N. Murdoch, M. Panning, R. Garcia, D. Mimoun, M. Golombek, J. Tromp, M. B ̈ose1, I. Daubar, B. Kenda, A. Khan, L. Perrin, A. Spiga, M. S. Boxberg, M. Parath, M. Ditz, A.Lamert, T. M ̈oller, S. Zhang, D. Ambrois, J. Ch`eze, F. Peix, H. Alemany, D. Mercerat, J. Balestra, A. Deschamp, C. Twardzik, L. Rolland, S. Mader, L. Marten, C. Schr ̈oer, D.Becker, T. Casademont, F. Dethof, D. Essing, K. Grunert, C. Hadziioannou, G. Hein, I.Hochfeld, T. Kilchling, F. Mehrkens, P. Neumann, R. Neurath, R. Steinmann, N.Trumpik, P. Werdenbach-Jarklowski, H. Hu, J. Li, Y. Zheng, E. Stutzmann, M. Schimmel,C. Hammer, B. Knapmeyer-Endrun, S. C. St ̈ahler, N. Brinkman, S. Kedar, F. Euchner, B.Fernando, M. Tsekhmistrenko, K. Hosseini, C. Haindl, H. Godwin, A. Szenicer, T. Garth, and A. Allam. 2019, Preparing for InSight: Evaluation of the Blind Test for Martian Seismicity, Seismology Research Letters, 90(4): 1518-1534. Link, PDF
  4. Wei Z., H. Hu*, A. Lau and H. W. Zhou, 2019, Characterizing the rock facies using convolutional neural network with feature engineering and a data padding strategy, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 176(8): 3593-3605. Link, PDF
  5. Zhang Y., A. Li and H. Hu, 2019, Crustal structure in Alaska from receiver function analysis, Geophysical Research Letters, 46(3): 1284-1292. Link, PDF
  6. Hu H., M. Senkaya and Y. Zheng, 2019, A novel measurement of the surface wave dispersion with high and adjustable resolution: Multi-channel nonlinear signal comparison, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 160: 236-241. Link, PDF

2018

  1. Xia K., F. Hilterman and H. Hu, 2018, Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm for Detecting and Outlining Surface Waves, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 157, 73-86. Link, PDF
  2. Hu H., Y. Zheng, X. Fang and M. C. Fehler, 2018, 3D Seismic characterization of fractures with Random spacing Using the Double-Beam Method, Geophysics, 83(5): M63-M74. Link, PDF
  3. Eftekhar R., H. Hu* and Y. Zheng, 2018, Convergence acceleration in scattering series and seismic waveform inversion using nonlinear Shanks transformation, Geophysical Journal International, 214(3): 1732–1743. Link, PDF
  4. Zhou. H. W., H. Hu, Z. Zou, Y. Wo and O. Youn, 2018, Reverse time migration: A prospect of seismic imaging, Earth-Science Reviews, 179: 207-227. Link, PDF
  5. Hu H. and Y. Zheng, 2018, 3D Seismic Characterization of Fractures in a Dipping Layer Using the Double-beam Method, Geophysics, .83(2): V123-V134. Link, PDF

2017

  1. Ding, Y., Zheng, Y., Zhou, H. W., Howell, M., Hu, H. and Zhang, Y., 2017. Propagation of Gaussian Wave Packets in complex media and application to fracture characterization, Geophysical Journal International, 210(2): 1244-1251. Link, PDF
  2. Zheng Y. and H. Hu, 2017, Nonlinear signal comparison and high-resolution measurement of surface wave dispersion, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(3):1551-1556. Link, PDF
  3. Liu X., Y. Liu, H. Lu and H. Hu, 2017, Prestack correlative least-squares reverse time migration, Geophysics, 82(2): S159-S172. Link, PDF

2016

  1. Liu X., Y. Liu, H. Hu, Peng Li and M. Khan; 2016, Imaging of first-order surface-related multiples by reverse-time migration. Geophysical Journal International, 208(2): 1077-1087. Link, PDF.
  2. Liu Y., X. Liu, A. Osen, Y. Shao, H. Hu and Y. Zheng, 2016, Least-squares reverse time migration using controlled order multiples reflections, Geophysics, 81(5): S347-S357. Link, PDF.
  3. Hu H., Y. Liu, Y. Zheng, X. Liu and H. Lu, 2016, Least-squares Gaussian beam migration, Geophysics, 81(3), S87-S100. Link, PDF
  4. Zheng Y., A. H. Malallah, M. C. Fehler and H. Hu, 2016, 2D full-waveform modeling of seismic waves in layered karstic media, Geophysics, 81, T19-T28. Link, PDF

2015

  1. Hu H., Y. Liu, A. Osen and Y. Zheng, 2015, Compression of local slant stacks by the estimation of multiple local slopes and the matching pursuit decomposition, Geophysics, 80, WD175-187. Link, PDF
  2. Y. Liu, H. Hu, X. Xie and Y. Zheng, 2015, Reverse time migration of internal multiples for subsalt imaging, Geophysics, 80, S175-S185. Link, PDF
  3. Hu H., Y. Wang and X. Chang, 2015, Migration of free-surface-related multiples: removing artefacts using a water-layer model, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 112, 147-156. Link, PDF
  4. Liu Y., W. Zhu, L. Mi, J. Zhou and H. Hu, 2015, Migration of multiples from the South China sea, Science China, 45(2), 482-490. Link, PDF
  5. Liu X., Y. Liu, H. Hu and S. Xie, 2015, Focal transformation imaging of first-order multiples, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 58(6), 1985-1997. Link, PDF

Before 2015

  1. Wang Y., X. Chang and H. Hu, 2014, Simultaneous reverse time migration of primaries and free-surface related multiples without multiple prediction, Geophysics, 79, S1-S9. Link, PDF
  2. Hu H., Y. Liu, X. Chang, Y. Wang, X. Du and R. Yang, 2013, Analysis and application on boundary treatment for the computation of reverse-time migration, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2033-2042. Link, PDF